Case Files
Australia’s greatest murder mystery
THE Beaumonts have waited 18,259 agonising days to find out what really happened to their children. Andrew Rule takes a hard look at a crime that grabbed the nation.
Shot, burnt and left in a ditch
WHO was the “Pyjama Girl”? Her body was found badly disfigured in a ditch. For 10 years, her identity remained a mystery and she became the centre of our most baffling crime.
Cruel horror of little girl’s violent end
A LONELY road. A dusty case. And a tiny girl who met the most horrific of ends. ANDREW RULE reports on the sad mystery gripping a tiny town.
Who knocked Mr Rent-A-Kill?
WAS Christopher Flannery dumped at sea, encased in concrete, or chopped and mulched? One crime vet says he knows the truth about a hitman some think killed 14.
Why was this charmer driven to kill?
SHE was a well-bred thief with a knack for conning strangers. But when words failed her, the attractive young Melbourne lass pulled a gun ...
Did this bandit spark Melbourne cop murders?
IF you saw this man in the street, would you pick him for one of Australia’s most wanted linked to a crime wave some think led to cold-blooded cop killings?
How Google search foiled tomato tin mafia
BIG READ: HOW the Aussie Mr Bigs behind the world’s biggest ecstasy haul and $13b drug plot were busted. Video: The surveillance tapes
Headless Yarra corpse unlocks awful secret
SPECIAL: IT was the headless corpse of a young country girl found in the Yarra River close to the MCG that lifted the lid on a horrific industry.
How '30s CSI cops nabbed brutal chimney sweep killer
A young Melbourne girl was raped and murdered and her aunt left in a pool of blood. But what were the old-school "CSI" methods used to capture a killer?
The spy who conned me
WAYNE Charters claimed he was an ASIO super spy to con his new bride into handing over a fortune. To others he was a war hero, clergyman and doctor.
Triple killer chose victims at random
WHAT drove Ashley Mervyn Coulston to execute three young strangers in Melbourne’s east after responding to a housemate-wanted ad?
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Who ordered hits on Mafia father, son?
COLD CASE FILES:
IT'S not often that a son is killed in the same way as his father, setting aside wars and road accidents.
Crime boss played politics of murder
POLITICIAN and crime boss Phuong Ngo wasn’t going to let anyone stand in the way of his ambitions but when MP John Newman was shot dead, fingers pointed his way.
Victoria’s most infamous (not-so-subtle) jail killings
DOUBLE murderer Barry Robert Quinn was set alight inside Pentridge Prison 30 years ago today. We take a look back at the state’s most infamous jail murders.
Stake through heart of vampire case
IT was a murder Victorian police had been desperate to solve for a decade but as PADRAIC MURPHY reports, the notorious vampire gigolo case seemed cursed from the start | Juror threatened by text
Slain bub’s mum haunted by screams
WHENEVER Casey Veal shuts her eyes, the horrors of the morning she found her infant son slain come rushing back.
Ice cream turf war’s chilling end
FOR most of us, the sound of an ice cream truck triggers memories of suburban childhood treats, but in this case, it sparked jealously, greed and murder.
What happened to baby Chloe?
FEATURE: BABY Chloe had a fractured skull when she died. Last week, the accused babysitter was cleared, but it begs the question - what really happened?
Mystery of road gang’s perfect heist
A POLICE taskforce will re-examine one of Melbourne’s biggest crime riddles, but 20 years on, how did bandits pull off a heist that netted $4 million in cash?
Disney trip fanned hubby’s fatal fury
SUBURBAN PSYCHOS: IT was the trip to Disneyland with his family that proved the last straw for jealous husband Robert Baxter.
Melbourne's night of terror
SPECIAL: KEITH Moor reconstructs the 1987 Hoddle St killings, partly based on Julian Knight's own words.
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The night police opened fire on a boy
SPECIAL: IT was an incident that divided Victorians. Police had shot dead an armed boy, age 15. This is how the tragedy unfolded. Were police justified?
Veteran cop's Mr Cruel obsession
CRIME FEATURE: RETIRING cop Chris O'Connor has worked on some of the state's biggest cases, but a notorious child abductor continues to haunt him.
How did Phoebe really die?
SPECIAL REPORT: THE STRANGE death of young and beautiful Phoebe Handsjuk has all the hallmarks of a murder mystery, and her family wants answers.
Tiny clues led to cops' cruel killer
SPECIAL: THE smallest piece of evidence can lead to a killer.
Elissa Hunt follows the trail to Bandali Debs, 15 years after the notorious Silk-Miller murders.
Release delayed for bizarre strangler
UPDATE: AUTHORITIES confirm a sadistic female killer who murdered a teen to steal her identity will not be released this year, after family pressure.
‘We still hope and believe she’s alive’
IT’S five years since Siriyakorn “Bung’’ Siriboon left her Boronia home to walk to school, vanishing without a trace. But her family say they will never give up hope.
When henpecked hubby turns killer
HE was even banned from using his own toilet, but when Anthony Sherna’s controlling wife spooked his beloved dog Hubble, that was the last straw ...
$1m lure aims to catch cleaner’s killers
POLICE offer $1m to solve the murder of a “mild mannered” cleaner found in a bush grave, as they revealed leads stretch from Ballarat, to Moe and Tasmania.
‘The terrible things I have done’
HE let another man rape his girlfriend then stabbed her 157 times — just one of his many killings. This is the mass murderer Paul Haigh.